Contribution to the Webinar entitled ‘Guarded Centres for Foreigners - Current Situation and Necessary Changes’ by Tomasz Sieniow, CMR, University of Warsaw
Tomasz Sieniow, Horizon Europe GAPs team at CMR UW
On May 16, 2024, Tomasz Sieniow from the Horizon Europe GAPs team at CMR UW participated as an expert in a webinar entitled ‘Guarded centres for foreigners - current situation and necessary changes’. The second expert in migration and refugee law was Ewa Ostaszewska-Żuk - a lawyer cooperating with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. The meeting was moderated by Magdalena Nazimek-Rakoczy from the Migration Consortium.
During the event, the following issues were discussed: what detention is and when it is used, what the conditions are in the centres, what the situation in the centres of the most vulnerable people is, including minors, and what needs to change most urgently.
The meeting was held as part of the ‘Migration Academy’ series, which is run by the Migration Consortium, a group of nine social organisations that advocate for migrants and refugees and provide support to them across the country. The Academy is a free-of-charge initiative of the community of social organisations cooperating within the Consortium.
Through webinars with experts and educational materials on an online platform, the Academy allows participants to expand their knowledge and gain competence in the field of migration governance. The Academy's target audience is primarily local governments, refugee and migrant activists, and NGOs at the local level.
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